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Johnny Cash - The Singer and the Song - Don't Take Your Guns to Town
The Singer and the Song
Disc 1
01. Blowin' in the Wind (Broadside Show, May 1962)
02. Delia's Gone
03. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
04. In the Jailhouse Now
05. Fixin' to Die
06. Five Feet High & Rising
07. Standing on the Highway (Folksinger's Choice, 11th March, 1961)
08. Busted
09. Talkin' New York
10. Transfusion Blues
11. In the Pines (Carnegie Chapter Hall, NYC, 4th Nov, 1961)
12. The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
13. House of the Rising Sun
14. The Smiling Bill McCall
15. Mixed-Up Confusion
16. I Still Miss Someone
17. Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues (Carnegie Chapter Hall, NYC, 4th Nov, 1961)
18. The Big Battle
19. In My Time of Dyin'
20. Bonanza
21. Song to Woody
22. Remember the Alamo
23. The Girl Left Behind (Folk Song Festival, 29th October, 1961)
24. I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now
25. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Disc 2
01. Highway 51
02. Don't Take Your Guns to Town
03. Man of Constant Sorrow
04. In Them Old Cottonfields Back Home
05. The Death of Emmett Till (Broadside Show, May 1962)
06. Tennessee Flat-Top Box
07. Freight Train Blues
08. I Walk the Line
09. Sally Gal (Wnyc radio studio NYC 29 Oct 61)
10. Girl in Saskatoon
11. You're No Good
12. What Do I Care
13. Poor Lazarus (Saturday of Folk Music, 29th July, 1961)
14. Lost on the Desert
15. Gospel Plow
16. Hank and Joe and Me
17. (Naomi Wise) Omie Wise (Riverside Church NYC, July 1961)
18. Accidentally on Purpose
19. Corrinna, Corrinna
20. Big River
21. Pretty Peggy-O
22. So Doggone Lonesome
23. 1913 Massacre (Carnegie Chapter Hall, NYC, 4th Nov, 1961)
24. Frankie's Man, Johnny
25. He Was a Friend of Mine (Riverside Church NYC, July 1961)
A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
A boy filled with wonderlust who really meant no harm
He changed his clothes and shined his boots
And combed his dark hair down
And his mother cried as he walked out
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town
He laughed and kissed his mom
And said your Billy Joe's a man
I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can
But I wouldn't shoot without a cause
I'd gun nobody down
But she cried again as he rode away
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town
He sang a song as on he rode
His guns hung at his hips
He rode into a cattle town
A smile upon his lips
He stopped and walked into a bar
And laid his money down
But his mother's words echoed again
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand
And tried to tell himself he had at last he had become a man
A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down
And he heard again his mothers words
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town
Filled with rage then
Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw
But the stranger drew his gun and fired
Before he even saw
As Billy Joe fell to the floor
The crowd all gathered 'round
And wondered at his final words
Don't take your guns to town son
Leave your guns at home Bill
Don't take your guns to town